Happy Happy!Pour yourself a glass Organic FT France Peru Jumarp Coffee, Sit down by the tree and prepare for our longer weekend:

• How Shopify beat Amazon to become a ubiquitous store Tobi Lütke turned Canadian upstarts into e-commerce giants through anti-Bezos. How long can the formula last? (Work Week)

• Behind the new drug treatment of Covid: husband and wife team and hunch The journey of this drug out of university laboratories is the latest example of an unlikely source of pandemic antidote.Wall Street Journal)

• The true story of Pixar: How a bad hardware company turned itself into a great movie studio By definition, the film cannot contain hand-drawn. The tools to build it are fragmentary. The first is software that enables computers to create two-dimensional images and later virtual 3D objects. Then we figured out how to move these objects, color them and light them up before rendering them as movie frames. (IEEE Spectrum)

• Retail Entertainment: In-depth understanding of the new shopping experience Once upon a time-not long ago-the online shopping experience boiled down to a search box, a drop-down menu, a few filters, nothing more. A linear, almost surgical agreement, and, let’s face it, is not entirely interesting. Today, the sales experience is designed to meet the needs of consumers who are constantly seeking uniqueness. (In bed and society)

• Tomb Raider on the Upper East Side: Inside the Antiquities Sales Department of DA in Manhattan In the past ten years, more than 3,600 cultural relics worth approximately US$200 million have been seized. They raided the Art Fair on Park Avenue and Christie’s in Rockefeller Center. They arrested a dealer at the five-star Mark Hotel and confiscated the statue on display in the five-star Pierre Hotel. Tips from academics, dealers, and other informants have repeatedly led to the Upper East Side. The old money family settlements along Fifth Avenue Museum Avenue are the most serious neighborhoods in the United States for antique crime. He told a judge that the problem with “these tall gentlemen” is that they “never will be so vulgar” to check their legal status before buying ancient art. (Atlantic Organization)

• Platform economy After years of development, this technology platform has become an excellent business model. We use natural language processing to identify platform companies and show that they perform significantly better than the stock market. The powerful network effect of the platform has produced positive feedback and monopoly dynamics, which is subverting traditional valuation methods. (Star Capital)

• “Cowboy Cocktail”: How Wyoming became one of the world’s top tax havens Millionaires and billionaires all over the world have noticed. In recent years, families from India to Italy to Venezuela have abandoned the international financial center of law firms in ski resorts and mining towns in Wyoming, helping the state become one of the world’s largest tax havens. Pandora’s paper shows that the least populous state in the United States is the state that stores assets. (Washington post)

• The race for water resources in the western United States: How the four cities will survive future droughts, from expanding reservoirs and developing neighboring watersheds to promoting conservation efforts. How the four cities will survive future droughts, from expanding reservoirs and developing neighboring watersheds to promoting conservation efforts. (Bloomberg)

• Why is Kenny Washington not an American idol? This year marks the 75th anniversary of Washington’s seminal season, and he is almost a footnote in the history of sports. On the eve of the last Super Bowl, a clip from CBS finally acknowledged his extraordinary breakthrough-calling it the “Jackie Robinson Moment.” So, why don’t we call Jackie Robinson’s debut as the “Kenny Washington Moment” decades later? Why did the United States forget Kenny Washington? (slate)

• The Texans who saved the Beatles From the beginning, it was obvious that the Beatles had a job ready for them. The mission was to produce an album from scratch in three weeks. Old friends worked hard to make progress, arguing about their work ethics and creative vision, until George Harrison quit the band after only 7 days of recording. After a series of off-camera meetings, Harrison returned, but the band is now behind schedule and feels more pressure to deliver. Then Billy Preston appeared. (Texas Monthly)

Be sure to check our Master of Business This week, Max Chafkin is a contributing editor and technical reporter for BusinessWeek. His work has also appeared in “Fast Company”, “Vanity Fair” and “New York Times” magazines. His most recent book is “Contrarian investors: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s pursuit of power. “

Since the pandemic, the wealth of the poorest Americans has grown at a record high

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